Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
Bronisław Pekosiński
as Bronisław Pekosiński
Maria Klejdysz
as pani Bukowska
Anna Seniuk
as koleżanka Danusia
Franciszek Trzeciak
as sekretarz Jan Kos
Bronisław Pawlik
as sędzia
Franciszek Pieczka
as ksiądz Michalski
Krzysztof Chamiec
as generał Bagno
Anna Milewska
as siostra
Romuald Karaś
as on sam, dziennikarz słuchający opowieści Pekosińskiego
Henryk Sobiechart
as syn Bukowskiej
Jolanta Rychłowska
as koleżanka Stasia
Aleksander Fogiel
as profesor
